Manhattan Institute Scholar

Steven Malanga is City Journal's senior editor, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, and a RealClearMarkets.com columnist. He is author of the recently published Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer, about the bankrupting of state and local governments by a new political powerhouse led by public-sector unions. He writes about the intersection of urban economies, business communities, and public policy. He was recently cited as one of Governor Chris Christie’s intellectual influences (BusinessWeek, August 2010).

Prior to joining City Journal, Malanga was executive editor of Crain’s New York Business for seven years, serving on the publication’s editorial board and writing a weekly column. He also supervised special projects, including investigative stories. Before that, Malanga served for seven years as managing editor of Crain’s. During his tenure at the publication, it twice won the General Excellence award from the Association of Area Business Publications.

In 1995, Malanga was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for the series “Nonprofits: New York’s new Tammany Hall,” which he co-authored. In 1998, a series he co-authored, “Tort-ured State,” about the influence of trial lawyers in New York State, was voted best investigative story of the year by the AABP. The previous year, a computer-assisted project that Malanga designed, reported, and wrote on Small Business Administration loans in New York City was voted one of the year’s best investigative stories by AABP.

Malanga has also written articles on various topics for The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and other publications. Malanga is the author of The New New Left (Ivan R. Dee, 2005) and The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's (Ivan R. Dee, 2007), co-authored with Heather Mac Donald and Victor Davis Hanson.

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WGN's "Extension 720"
WTMJ's "Midday with Charlie Sykes"
Fox News Radio's "WSAU News"
KSFO's "Brian Sussman Show"
TRN's "Jerry Doyle Show"
Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co."
Fox Business Network's "The Willis Report"
PBS's "Nightly Business Report"
Fox Business Network's "Stossel"
Fox News's "Journal Editorial Report"

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Articles/Op-eds

The Class Divide In White America, RealClearMarkets, 02-01-12
Congress' Pension Math Doesn't Add Up, RealClearMarkets, 01-18-12
How Stimulus Spending Ruined Buffalo, Wall Street Journal, 01-14-12
The Housing Market Rebuilds Brick by Brick, RealClearMarkets, 01-04-12
Have We Got a Convention Center to Sell You!, Wall Street Journal, 12-31-11
Taxpayers Finance Miami Marlins Christmas List, RealClearMarkets, 12-13-11
Whites Hit Hardest By Public Employee Layoffs, Washington Examiner, 12-07-11
Joe Biden and the Myth of Local Government Layoffs, Wall Street Journal, 12-03-11
Bankruptcy Is An Ugly Option for Cities, RealClearMarkets, 11-30-11
Other People’s Money, New York Post, 11-23-11
Ohio's Public Sector Economy Rolls On, RealClearMarkets, 11-16-11
Hands Off my Union Dues!, Washington Examiner, 11-09-11
Illinois' Budget: From Worst to 'Worster', RealClearMarkets, 11-02-11
How Harrisburg Borrowed Itself Into Bankruptcy, Wall Street Journal, 10-28-11
Wall Street and New York: Imperfect Together, RealClearMarkets, 10-19-11
How California Drives Away Jobs and Business, Wall Street Journal, 10-15-11
Meanwhile, Back in the Garden State, New York Post, 10-05-11
Collateral Damage In the Muni Market, RealClearMarkets, 10-05-11
Gov. Perry and the 'Race to the Bottom' Myth, RealClearMarkets, 09-07-11
Why the Labor Movement Moved Left, Wall Street Journal, 08-26-11
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Books

Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against The American Taxpayer, October 2010
The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, November 2007
The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today Tax Eaters vs. Taxpayers, May 2005

City Journal articles

Convention Wisdom, Winter 2012
Cali to Business: Get Out!, Autumn 2011
Hands Off My Dues!, Autumn 2011
Lock People Up? Not in Britain!, 18 August 2011
Pension Propaganda, Summer 2011
The Compensation Monster Devouring Cities, Summer 2011
The Washington Diet, Spring 2011
Union Power Comes in Many Forms, Spring 2011
Union Power Comes in Many Forms, 6 March 2011
Backdoor Big Government, Winter 2011
State Budget Bunk, Winter 2011
The Man That Bankrupted Harrisburg, Autumn 2010
The Next Wave of Urban Reform, Autumn 2010
Egg on Their Faces, Summer 2010
The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb, Summer 2010
Pessimism-Proof, 9 July 2010
Block Grants Forever, Spring 2010
The Beholden State, Spring 2010
Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource, Winter 2010
As Goes New Jersey . . ., Winter 2010
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